That's a defeatist attitude. Challenging this up to the supreme court would draw even more attention to the case, which Thomas may not want. Even if he did, there's no telling what the court would decide. To my knowledge he hasn't been charged yet, that would be a good first step.
I don't know. Tax authorities can be relentless when someone get caught committing shameless tax fraud.
There might not be enforceable penalty for ethics violation at the supreme court. But there definitely are penalties for tax fraud. Obligatory Al Capone reference.
Good on Slovakia for reducing coal use. Gas seems to be slightly decreasing the last year as well. Looking forward to seeing another country completely phase out coal.
Everyone assumed as much. But there is now confirmation that the next election won't be free. It's important to be able to point to specific actions and behavior when saying Russia isn't a free country.
Glootie is a character that first appeared in Introducing: Glootie! [..] He has DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP tattooed on his forehead.
Someone like Glootie once once asked me to develop his app. I expertly dodged the bullet by referring him to an organization that coordinates freelance developments. Someone explained to him that he'd need 1 or 2 developers plus a project manager, and probably told him typically hourly rate and number of hours for such projects. Never heard him again speak about the app.
The commission said 29 people have so far filed to run for the presidency. But after today's decision, Mr Putin remains the only candidate to be able to register as a candidate.
Not just this anti-war candidate. It appears all candidates are banned from challenging Putin.
Late for presents preparation as usual. A piece a broken glass punctured my bicycle tire today, hopefully I wasn't far from home. Day job is good. I can't complain much.
It has a good storyline. It's not horror focused, and ennemies won't suprise as much as in resident evil or doom. They're mostly there to add difficulty or be part to the mission. Recycling makes the low amount of munitions/inventory tolerable.
China “is sitting on a stockpile of strategic” vulnerabilities, or undisclosed security flaws it can use in stealthy attacks, Adamski said
Agencies in the USA have been stockpiling vulnerabilities as well, rather than reporting them so vendors cam fix them. It backfired before, it could backfire again.
HP's website wouldn't let me download a driver, but insisted on using their app to detect the printer model (which I already know) and then try to open the corresponding download page for that model (which I already vsited).
Off course the app open the wrong URL and lead to a 404 error. I had to download drivers from another source.
It seems this tweets refers to the CFA currency, which is inherited from colonial times and is indeed bad for nations' monetary inependance.
That being said the tweet exagerates CFA reserves that were (until recently) controlled by France. It was 50% of foreign exchange reserve, not 90% of all nations' reserves. And it's out of date since
France started to transfer reserves to the West Africa Central Bank two years ago.
It's clear this hasn't been completely solved, but the situation has improved and should keep improving. All eyes are on this new Eco currency, we'll see if that happens and it it does, whether it's fair for all nations involved.
Bolloré's private company is exploiting African countries, that much is obvious.
It's more complicated when it comes to recent military operations that included french troops. The original Serval military operation in Mali was requested by Mali's government at the time, and was a joint Africa-lead operation that involved multiple African and European countries.
France's government certainly has some afterthought when they decided to interviene, the most obvious is the desire to have influence in the region. But it's not comparable to colonial times as the headline imply.
That's a defeatist attitude. Challenging this up to the supreme court would draw even more attention to the case, which Thomas may not want. Even if he did, there's no telling what the court would decide. To my knowledge he hasn't been charged yet, that would be a good first step.